It's true that the First National Bank was dominated by ... President James Madison authorized the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. Source: Federal Reserve of Philadelphia Foreign ...

But the Bank of the United States, like many of Hamilton's other ... Soon after he became the nation's first Treasury Secretary, he was already proposing a national equivalent.

In the early 1900s, Maggie made a historical stride when she chartered the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank and became the first African American woman to open a bank in the United States and serve as ...